CBI searched Subhash Yadav’s premises and recovered Rs 11 lakh in cash and incriminating documents from his house.
MUMBAI: CBI arrested an income tax inspector, Subhash Yadav, posted in Scindia House that housed I-T Investigation Wing in Ballard Estate area of South Mumbai, while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 15 lakh from a complainant. CBI is investigating the detail of Yadav’s work and access to the secret information of Benami Prohibition Unit-I of Income Tax Department; the arrested accused was transferred from the said unit in June 2026 and is currently working in the investigation unit of Income Tax.
the court stated, “The police custody of accused is claimed by CBI for conducting detail investigation regarding the involvement of other accused persons in the said crime and for investigating into the digital devices of the arrested accused and for collecting the specimen voice sample.” While granting CBI custody on Wednesday. CBI seized the electric devices for Yadav for examination.
CBI searched Yadav’s premises and recovered Rs 11 lakh in cash and incriminating documents from his house. Subhash Yadav had allegedly demanded the money to ensure the closure of a case relating to a benami property that was pending before Income Tax Department’s Benami Prohibition Unit. CBI informed the remand court that Yadav did not cooperate in the investigation and gave an evasive reply about the bribe money and others involved in the case.
CBI produced him before the court on Wednesday and the court remanded him to two days’ CBI custody.